Questions tagged [mod-proxy]

Module for the apache webserver with which apache can be used as proxy server. With this module apache can act as a regular proxy, or as a reverse proxy for upstream servers.

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Can I get Apache 2.2 to set a particular response header if some other response header is missing

I have an Apache 2.2 server running mod_proxy. We had a scenario where a response came through from the origin corrupted, it didn't have any content-type or cache-control headers. This meant that downstream proxies and clients cached the dodgy…
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Apache Proxying Setup

I have a scenario as below: I have a URL with DNS Entry, say http://example.com When the user enters http://example.com/portal, (s)he lands on Apache (2.2) Web Server (say AWS 1). There I have a VirtualHost Entry which proxies the request to another…
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How to turn on mod_cache with mod_proxy or mod_jk

I'm trying to setup apache+mod_jk/mod_proxy with mod_cache. But it looks like all proxied requests are ignored by mod_cache. May be it is related to module handling order or something else? Apache 2.2.22 I've tried use both mod_jk and mod_proxy -…
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How to reverse proxy specific ports to a different server behind a firewall using Apache mod_proxy

I have two Web severs, one Apache 2 and the other IIS 8, and both are on a LAN behind a firewall. I have ports 80, 443, and 8080-8088 open on the firewall. I have an externally hosted DNS A record pointing to my firewall, and firewall rules that…
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Mod_proxy preserve request protocol

I have an apache reverse proxy server with two balancer members - one for non-secure and one for secure. I want to 'reverse' the request to the machine inside the firewall using the original protocol. As far as I can tell, lines…
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Apache 2.2: RewriteMap, ProxyPass interpolation and Keep-Alive

I have an Apache httpd used as a SSL reverse proxy frontend for a lot of backends. I compute the name of the backend from the path given by the user. e.g: https://myhostname.com/myaccount translates to http://myaccount.myhostname.com For this I use…
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apache balancer, workers on internal IPs

I'm planning to build my first balancer for one of our website, using apaches mod_proxy and mod_proxy_balancer. Having not so many external IP's I'm thinking about to use each machines Internal IP but I can not decide if this would be a good…
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Apache RewriteRule - Proxy flag not working

I'm having a problem running Apache 2.2.20 on a Linux Mint distro. I've got the following rule in my .htaccess file: RewriteEngine on RewriteRule old1/old2 http://localhost/new1 [P] When I browse to http://localhost/old1/old2 I just get a redirect…
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Apache mod_proxy to ssl backend not working properly

I'm getting the following errors when trying to do a proxy to an SSL backend server: [Thu Jan 03 14:44:26 2013] [error] (502)Unknown error 502: proxy: pass request body failed to 192.168.1.10:8443 (192.168.1.10) [Thu Jan 03 14:44:26 2013] [error]…
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Does mod_proxy support HTML5 Server Side Events / EventSource?

I am stuck with apache2. I've read that mod_proxy doesn't support websockets. Does it support EventSource? https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47485
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only port working with mod_proxy is 8009, trying to use with tomcat and httpd, dont know why

I am trying to use mod_proxy with httpd and tomcat. If I leave tomcat ajp to run on 8009 in the server.xml of tomcat and in the httpd.conf of apache httpd everything works great but once I change it to anything else and restart them both it does not…
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Apache: Setting up a reverse proxy configuration with SSL with url rewriting

There is a host: secure.foo.com that exposes a webservice using https I want to create a reverse proxy using Apache that maps a local http port on a server internal.bar.com to the https service exposed by secure.foo.com Since it a web service I…
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How can the mod_proxy be harmful?

I would like to apply this answer to my own server. However, it will not be an internal server, so I'm concerned about security. The linked question tells that the mod_proxy can be easily misconfigured. What is so dangerous ? And what's the 'good'…
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Apache 2 proxy for Tomcat 7

Following the how-to, I wanted to make a proxy for traffic to the address /app to be processed by Tomcat 7. I added this to my httpd.conf: LoadModule proxy_module {path-to-modules}/mod_proxy.so LoadModule deflate_module …
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reverse proxying to https apache

I'm trying to reverse proxy https from http virtual host but getting an internal server error. Here is my config : ProxyPass /access/signin https://mysecureserver.com ProxyPassReverse /access/signin https://mysecureserver.com in the logs I get the…
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